On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Mike Taylor <mike_at_indexdata.com> wrote:
> Having read the rest of this thread, I find that nothing that's been
> said changes my initial gut reaction on reading this question: DO NOT
> USE DCTERMS. It's vocabulary is Just Plain Inadequate, and not only
> for esoteric cases like the Alternative Chronological Designation of
> First Issue or Part of Sequence field that Karen mentioned. Despite
> having 70 (seventy!) elements, it's lacking fundamental fields for
> describing articles in journals -- there are no journalTitle, volume,
> issue, startPage or endPage fields. That, for me, is a deal-breaker.
If you're using Dublin Core as XML, I agree with this. If you're
using Dublin Core as RDF (which is, honestly, the only thing it's
really good for), this is a non-issue.
-Ross.
Received on Tue May 04 2010 - 08:20:56 EDT